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Crafting Firm Competencies to Improve Innovative Performance.

Lokshin, Boris; Gils, Anita van; Bauer, Eva - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

Recent interdisciplinary research suggests that customer and technological competencies have a direct, unconditional effect on firms' innovative performance. This study extends this stream of literature by considering the effect of organizational competencies. Results from a survey-research...

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Financial Constraint and R&D Investment: Evidence from CIS

Mohnen, Pierre; Tiwari, Amaresh; Palm, Franz; Schim van … - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007

Using direct information on financial constraints from questionnaires, rather than the commonly used balance sheet information, this paper presents evidence that, controlling for traditional factors as size, market share, cooperative arrangement, and expected profitability, financial constraints...

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Persistence of and interrelation between horizontal and vertical technology alliances

Belderbos, Rene; Gilsing, Victor; Lokshin, Boris - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

governance view of collaboration, and test these on an extensive panel dataset of innovation-active Dutch firms during 1996 … value chain integration in innovation processes. Positive interrelation also exists in vertical alliances, as immediate past …

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The Productivity Effects of Internal and External R&D: Evidence From a Dynamic Panel Data Model

Lokshin, Boris; Belderbos, René; Carree, Martin - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007

We examine the impact of internal and external R&D on labor productivity in a 6-year panel of Dutch manufacturing firms. We apply a dynamic linear panel data model that allows for decreasing or increasing returns to scale in internal and external R&D and for economies of scope. We find...

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Determinants of alliance portfolio complexity and its effect on innovative performance of companies

Duysters, Geert; Lokshin, Boris - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007

Alliance formation is often described as a mechanism used by firms to increase voluntary knowledge transfers. Access to external knowledge has been increasingly recognized as a main source of a firm's innovativeness. In this paper we examine decisions to form alliance portfolios of foreign and...

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Innovative Sales, R&D and Total Innovation Expenditures:Panel Evidence on their Dynamics

Raymond, Wladimir; Mohnen, Pierre; Palm, Franz; Schim … - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

This paper studies the dynamic relationship between input and output of innovation in Dutch manufacturing using an … unbalanced panel of enterprise data from five waves of the Community Innovation Survey during 1994-2004. We estimate by maximum … persistence of innovation input and innovation output, a lag effect of the former on the latter and a feedback effect of the …

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Financial Constraints and Other Obstacles: Are they a Threat to Innovation Activity?

Mohnen, Pierre; Palm, Franz; Schim van der Loeff, Sybrand; … - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

In this paper we examine the importance of financial and other obstacles to innovation in the Netherlands using … statistical information from the CIS 3.5 innovation survey. We report results on the effect of these obstacles on the firms …

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How effective are level-based R&D tax credits? Evidence from the Netherlands

Lokshin, Boris; Mohnen, Pierre - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2010

This paper examines the impact of the R&D fiscal incentive program on R&D by Dutch firms. Taking a factor-demand approach we measure the elasticity of firm R&D capital accumulation to its user cost. Econometric models are estimated using a rich unbalanced panel of firm data covering the period...

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Wage effects of R&D tax incentives:Evidence from the Netherlands

Lokshin, Boris; Mohnen, Pierre - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

This paper examines the impact of the Dutch R&D tax incentives program, known as WBSO, on the wages of R&D workers. In our model these wages are partly determined by the governments WBSO tax disbursements. We construct detailed firm- and time specific R&D tax credit rates as a function of the...

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What does it take for an R&D tax incentive policy to be effective?

Mohnen, Pierre; Lokshin, Boris - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

marginal burden of taxation, as well R&D externalities and the indirect effects on innovation and productivity. The net welfare …

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